2 is the only even prime.

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////////////Anabasis (noun)
Pronunciation: [ê-'næ-bê-sis]
Definition: A movement upward or forward, as a military advance or the advance of disease in the body; the antonym of "retreat."
Usage: Today's word comes from the title of a book by the Greek historian Xenophon about a Greek mercenary expedition across Asia Minor in 401 B.C. It was unsuccessful and turned into a retreat, making the title of Xenophon's book possibly one of the earliest examples of warspeak. The plural of today's word is "anabases," just as the plural of "basis" is "bases." The adjective is "anabatic," as in the anabatic wind currents that flow up a mountainside



//////////////////Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Posted: 21 Apr 2009 04:00 AM PDT
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe




///////////////Work hard to improve your mind and body. Nourish your spirit. Do the things you fear.
―Robin S. Sharma



///////////////Language, memory and cognition are all related intimately. When
Romans used their numerals to represent numbers, such ordinary
operations as multiplication were insanely difficult to most people
- let alone extraction of square roots and cube roots. Although
"in principle if explained properly and clearly anyone could
understand it".

With the invention of decimal place-value notation, the 'pen
became smarter than the hand that wielded it'.

a



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there are words in our part of the world, which cannot find true
translations. like 'Lobha, Dosa and Moha'. even if we find English words
for them, how about 'Alobha, Adosa and Amoha'?. Or words like 'Thanha
and Dukka'

about the gender issue, there are many names which are common. in fact i
used the idea in on of my novels to ask if the Future Buddha' could be a
woman, because the next Buddha has the name 'Maithree'.

we are all prisoners within barriers created by ourselves, which
probably began when man turned from hunter/gathe
D


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//////////////THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE NOT THINGS


//////////////el writes: "Our curiosity and propensity to wonder are what makes our world
interesting. When you look at other species you don't see them fawning over
nature, you just see them living in it. We are the only ones I know of that
are fascinated by our world."

Cel, think about the difference between a dog in a cage and a dog
wandering through the woods. Obviously, all symbolic concepts are human
concepts, but I still feel comfortable saying that a dog typically finds
the woods more interesting than the cage. But I think you correctly
identify that Dyson's comment (and Whitehead's also) are rather
anthropocentric views. But then, what other kind of view can we human's
have but anthropocentric ones?

P.S. I've seen deer fawning over nature :-) .

T



////////////////////////And contrary to our sensibilities, a dog finds a walk down an alley with garbage cans full to brimming much more interesting than a walk in the woods. At least my dogs do.

I don't know if a sated dog still finds the odors of an alley intriguing, or if it can experience reverence. I think it will be quite some time before somebody devises an experiment that will begin to answer that question. In the meantime, I like to think that my dogs are sharing my experience of it when I take them for a walk in the woods.

We may or may not be the only species to go ga-ga over nature. But even if we are alone, I don't think it is a bad thing.

J



///////////////////////I don't remember how this conversation began, about humans being the only species to be fascinated by our world. We're also, I believe, the only species who ponders the world without us in it, who thinks about our death not only in terms of avoiding it, but in what the world will be like after we leave it.

b

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